Because Mao Dun once performed too well, the vast majority of the Xiongnu princes did not have any impression of the second prince of Toth. Even if there were, it wasn't positive. It can be said that his younger brother has always been a foil to his brother's majesty.

But today, the Xiongnu princes suddenly discovered, hey, this Toth doesn't seem to be as wasted as they imagined! On the contrary, he is a very rational person, and he is not as arrogant as Maudun. For a time, Toth won the favor of many powerful figures of the Huns.

At Toth's suggestion, the venue was quiet, and everyone suppressed their dissatisfaction with Maudun in the depths of their hearts, and continued to discuss with Shan Yu how to deal with the current situation.

"Since the prince of Maudun has withdrawn from the army, then I think it is better for us to retreat to the grassland first, just in case. By the way, I discussed this matter with King Zuo Xian, and he didn't say goodbye to anything! "Uwe didn't want to fight this battle in his heart, so as soon as he had the chance, he pushed the big guy to retreat. Fighting with Zhu Bajie in Journey to the West, Tang Seng grabbed a goblin and shouted at the branch meeting Gao Laozhuang.

As soon as Uwei's words came out, several Xiongnu princes who looked at him as the head of the horse naturally nodded again and again, expressing their secondment.

Originally, this dispatch of troops was a whim of Touman, and the preparations in all aspects were not sufficient. There was strong opposition within the Xiongnu. In addition, after so many days of siege, there was no movement at all, and the grain and grass were consumed day by day. Tens of thousands of soldiers ate horses and chewed horses, and the Huns who had just finished the New Year were poor and only had pants left. Now that King Zuo Xian has run away again, even if the Huns are fierce, at this time they are also thinking about whether it is time to transfer strategically.

Touman's plan is to let the left and right virtuous kings play the vanguard. He led the Chinese army to pick up the fruits of victory. But in order to protect himself, Mao Dun slipped away. In this way, the rest of Uwe is not stupid, if Touman lets him go at this time, maybe he will be like Mao Dun, taking advantage of the dark moon and high wind, to pack up the guy and run away.

"King Zuo Xian's return to the army must have his reasons, but since our army is here, we can't leave easily. Don't fight. It's hard to go back and explain to the clansmen! Touman stared at the crowd.

This expedition was organized and initiated by him. If he runs away like this, it will undoubtedly be a painful blow to his reputation, so no matter what, this battle must be fought. Even if you slip away, you have to fight.

"But how to fight. King Zuo Xian has already run away. It has a great impact on the morale of the soldiers, and our strength has also suffered a great loss. That's not the best policy! If Uwe hadn't been afraid, he would have been eager to point at Touman's nose and scold at this time. What are you doing here, the army has just arrived, and you don't attack when the Han people are not prepared, and now the Han people are all ready, and the strongest force on our side has slipped away, and then you start fighting, is this a normal person's thinking?

"King Youxian is reasonable, now that the Han people occupy the right time and place, our morale is weak, and we will definitely suffer a loss!" Han Won-ho stood up and expounded his position......

"What the two princes said is very reasonable!" After a long talk with Thoth, Li Wujie, the king of the left school, felt that this little prince was very good, much better than Mao Dun. And he is not so hostile to the Han people, and there seems to be a sense of worship in his words, which is what Li Wujie values the most.

The three princes spoke at the same time, and this weight was still very heavy. For a while, countless people responded that this situation was very unfavorable to Touman.

In the face of almost the overwhelming opposition of the people, Touman did not feel that it was his own strategic mistake, but thought that these ambitious fellows were dissatisfied with his rule, thinking that he was old and wanted to disobey his orders.

"Enough, needless to say, I am Shan Yu of the Huns, I said that the siege of the city will be the siege. Now everyone goes back to straighten out the army, half an hour later, the army will attack the city, I will personally supervise the battle, if anyone disobeys the order, the yang and the yin disobey, come to see you! "Touman, took out the courage of his youth, directly overrode public opinion, and ordered the siege of the city.

Although the high-level Huns were very dissatisfied with Touman's arbitrariness, there was no way, who made the family Shan Yu, including the right virtuous king Uwei, and the cadres dared to be angry and did not dare to speak. In case the head man is in a hurry, he really chops himself up, and he doesn't even make sense.

As a horse people, the Huns were accustomed to cavalry combat, so they naturally formed a very powerful cavalry, while the infantry was relatively weak. And Dahua because of the scarcity of war horses, infantry is the absolute main force. In defensive warfare, the main reliance is precisely on the infantry. Compared with the two, the Huns have fallen behind in their own shortcomings and strengths against the enemy. But the Huns were not afraid of death and made up for this shortcoming.

Touman has fought a lifetime of battles, fought with the grassland peoples, and fought countless times with the Tiger Ben army, just under this Yumen Pass, he buried the bones of hundreds of thousands of Huns and Han people, so for this battle, he is already familiar with the road. The Hun soldiers relaxed for so many days, and although their morale was weakened, their state was greatly adjusted. After propaganda and agitation, a strong fighting force broke out.

When more than 300 cowhide drums began to roar like thunder, the phalanx of the Hun infantry also rumbled.

The phalanx consisted of a hundred people in a square team, equipped with a ladder, to form an offensive unit. Every ten squares form an independent phalanx. The west wall of Yumen Pass was the longest, and the main force of the Xiongnu deployed 20,000 infantry in 20 phalanxes as the first round of onslaught. The forty phalanxes in the deep zone are also lined up, ready for the second and third rounds of continuous onslaught. According to Touman's plan, after three rounds of onslaught, the Yumen Pass will be broken! The three city walls in the northwest and south attacked at the same time, and the Huben army was bound to flee from the east gate without the Huns, which was the escape route that Touman specially left for the Huben army, and it was also the ancient military training of "besieging the division must be que". Tou Manqi copied this ancient precept because he didn't want to surround it on all sides and let the Tiger Ben Army fight desperately trapped beasts to the death, and the city would be difficult to break. Leaving a way out for the Tiger Army is actually a wonderful way to break the fighting spirit of the Tiger Army.

Touman, as the Shan Yu of the Xiongnu, rarely led the troops in person to lead the main battle, just as the emperor of Dahua rarely drove the expedition in person. However, almost every time he went out, the Hun warriors were invincible. Over time, it also made him feel that he was possessed by the Kunlun God. No enemy is to be afraid of in front of him.

Touman never thought of fighting a protracted war with the Han Chinese, his plan was to break the city, and then plunder, and finally go away. That's enough. He would even ask his men not to be too bloody, and preferably not to be fireproof. If necessary, a fire burns this place to the ground, so what will you grab next time? Trickle down the drain!

For Touman's long-term insight, the vast majority of the Huns don't quite understand, but it doesn't matter, they don't need to understand so much, as long as they obediently obey Shan Yu's orders!

Touman stands on a wooden tower command platform that is the same height as the city wall and can be pushed freely. Suddenly slash the command flag!

The first wave of the offensive. Under the cover of 50,000 strong bows and crossbows, 50,000 foot soldiers, most of whom were cavalry, rushed to the city with all their might. Fill in the moat ditch. The moat is cut off. But it is still a muddy ditch more than two zhang deep and three zhang wide. The ladder could not be advanced and was a great obstacle to a full-scale siege.

In the thunderous drums of war, the Huns' strong bows exerted great power from a distance. The dense feathered arrows blocked every battlement of the female wall, and the tiger army could not raise its head at all, only a few rolling logs that were occasionally pushed down rumbled down, but rolled into the moat to fill the ditch for the Huns. The 50,000 foot soldiers of the Huns were divided into three echelons, each with a big shovel, and swooped down on the edge of the ditch to shovel soil and fill the ditch. Half an hour was rotated, and within two hours, the ditch was filled in flat.

With the roar of the big drums, the 20,000 20-stone crossbowmen who had already been arranged behind the phalanx suddenly launched and fired 10,000 arrows at the female wall battlements at the head of the Jade Gate, so that the defenders at the head of the city did not dare to show their heads. At the same time, the Xiongnu phalanx rumbled forward in the earth-shattering drums. In an instant, the ladder was close to the city wall, and the earth-shaking shouts suddenly resounded through the field. The Hun infantry quickly and orderly climbed the ladder and killed the city. At this time, the silent Yumen Gate closed the city, but suddenly erected a human wall!

A brutal and fierce bloody offensive and defensive battle began.

As the western gateway of Dahua, Yumen Pass has kept the Huns out of the city for ten years, and the Huns can only attack some small fortresses and castles, and barely capture some booty. Today, in the face of the Hun tiger wolf personally commanded by Touman, can Xiahou Yong continue the legend?

At this time, it was nearly twilight, and Touman ordered to rest for an hour, set up camp and feast on war meals. When it was dark, the Xiongnu launched a second wave of night onslaught. Under the torches, Touman stood on an earthen platform less than a stone's throw from the city wall, holding a long sword and armor, and personally commanded the siege battle.

Uwei, the king of Youxian, and a group of princes stood on the wooden tower three arrows away from the city wall to watch the battle situation, commenting with relish, as if watching the excitement.

In the vast plain under the cover of night, people shouted and neighed, torches filled the sky, and the sound of drums shook the heavens and the earth. The head of the city at Yumen Pass is also lit up, the helmets of the tiger army are bright, and everyone fights bravely to the death. Xiahou Yong ordered a large number of pigs and cattle fat to be transported, divided into clay pots, and placed under the women's wall. Under the torches, the Huns attacked, and the Tiger Ben Army immediately smashed the grease clay pot to the ladder! At the moment when the grease of the clay pot exploded, splashing the ladder and the Hun footmen, the butter torches that could burn for a long time also fell, and with a bang, the flames soared, and the Hun infantry screamed and rolled and fell.

Then a dense layer of rolling wood and stones rolled down from the top of the city, breaking the ladder and smashing the Hun soldiers to death under the city wall. Although the Xiongnu had strong bows and crossbows, this kind of long-range weapon could not be used in the night siege, otherwise they would accidentally injure their own soldiers. Moreover, no matter how many arrows there are, they are limited, and they can't be retracted when they are shot, so how can they be shot indefinitely?

After attacking at night for two hours, he was helpless against the Yumen Pass, so Touman ordered to stop the attack.

The jade gate was closed, and Tou Man was giving up his old bottom to fight with the Tiger Ben Army. Mao Dun, who ran away, began to be instigated by the military advisor to copy his father's back road.

"Lord Wang, don't miss the opportunity and come again. Once you wait until Shan Yu returns triumphantly, you won't have a chance at that time. If he takes away your kingship, he will cut you off the power of the army. Half of our life's work is gone! The wooden drum beat no longer knows how many times he has persuaded his lord.

"No, military advisor, I can listen to you for anything, but I can't say anything about this matter! Escaping from the battle is already going to make me infamy, if I go to attack the royal city now, then won't I become a sinner for the entire Huns? It will stink for thousands of years! The suggestion of the wooden drum was directly and sternly rejected by Mao Dun.

"Lord, become a king or lose a king, now is not the time for a woman's benevolence, the Han people have an old saying, those who achieve great things should be informal. As long as we capture the royal city, you are the new Shan Yu of the Huns! The Huns will be richer and stronger under your leadership! "The wooden drum is a bet. He had already weighed on his life, and he had to get Maudon out of that last step.

"Strategist, you're being a sinner than me!" Maudon shook his head and sighed.

"It's better to be a sinner now than to be a sinner for the rest of your life! Lord Wang, let's do it, this is our last chance, can you bear to watch your hard work for so many years go to waste? The wooden drum beat to stop Maudun, apparently trying to force him to make up his mind.

At this time, several generals who had been beaten by wooden drums and had been traditionally good in advance also surrounded them. They are all die-hard loyalists of Maoton, and once they lose power, they will not end well. So they all gathered around. Encourage the moves.

"Strategist. And if you really do it? What are our odds of winning? In the face of the huge temptation, Mao Dun still loosened, after all, he had worked hard for this position for half his life, if he really let Touman take away his crown. It's better to give it a go now.

"Lord Wang. As long as you dare to do it. I guarantee that Intramuros is an undefended city for us! The wooden drum is full of confidence.

Mao Dun questioned why the wooden drum was so confident, and an informed general stepped forward and whispered, "Lord Wang." The royal city generally only has 20,000 horsemen, plus the palace guards and the Praetorian Guard, and there are only 30,000 defenders at most. However, in this expedition alone, the two most elite armored cavalry were taken away, and there were only 10,000 palace guards and janissaries in the royal city at most. We are ten times outnumbered by the enemy, and in less than an hour, we can attack the royal city, and maybe we can trick the defenders into opening the door, and take the city without bloodshed.

Hearing these words, Mao Dun realized that the royal city in his impression could be so close to him and become a fat meat at his fingertips.

"In this case, for the sake of the prosperity of the Huns, this king should be a sinner!" Mao Dun's heart was moved, he was really moved. Growing so big, it was the first time that Shan Yuzhi was so close to him, which made him a little dizzy. But it's more about desire, an irrepressible desire!

Seeing that Mao Dun finally relented, the wooden drum beat and the general general were overjoyed. At that moment, Maudun's two sons, Majian Dongga, Dalugong rushed towards the royal city with 40,000 light horsemen, and the remaining tens of thousands of troops also sped up their journey, and they were murderous to the royal city.

The royal city of the Xiongnu is the residence of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, during the Han Empire, Emperor Wu crusaded against the Xiongnu, beat it to the embarrassment, and called the central government of the Han nationality a tribute, at that time Shan Yu did not live in the traditional tent, but with the help of the Han craftsmen, built the city to live. After so many years of inheritance, the Xiongnu have lived in this city for generations, first, it is safe, and secondly, the house is indeed much more comfortable than living in a tent. This is the personal experience of every Xiongnu Shan Yu.

In order to consolidate the royal city, in addition to the thousands of guards and janissaries in the palace alone, there were generally 20,000 Hun armored cavalry garrisoned. But this time, Touman went on an expedition, and in order to deal with the possible move of Mao Dun, he brought this elite two Wanjia horsemen with him. Therefore, the task of guarding the palace was entrusted to the palace guards and the Praetorian Guard. When night fell, and Maudun's two sons came to the outside of the royal city with 40,000 wolf-like light horses, the gates of the royal city were closed.

In the palace, Tou Mandanyu's wife, Hu Yan, was watching the moonlight in the courtyard. He is the sequel of Touman, the biological mother of Thoth. And Touman's first Dayan clan was the biological mother of Zuoxian Wang Maodun. has died of illness, which is also the main reason why he gradually fell out of favor in front of Shan Yu, after all, the influence of the pillow wind is still very large.

"Report, Qiyu Lake Yan Clan, I received a letter from His Royal Highness Toth with a golden eagle!" A court guard knelt down and presented a letter.

Hu Yan took the letter easily, and after reading it, he smiled with relief, his son has grown up, he knows how to use his brain, and he can calculate success to Maoton, which shows that his son still has a lot of potential.

"Sister, are you looking for me?" As soon as Hu Yan put down the letter, his second brother, Hu Yanran, who was Thoth's uncle, rushed in.

"Second brother is here, sit!" Hu Yan's confidence was very good when he saw his son, and it was rare to talk to people calmly, which made Hu Yanran flattered.

By this time, Dalugun had quietly come to the outside of the royal city, shouting for the defenders to open the door.

"Stand still, what kind of person, go any further and release the arrow!" The Praetorian Guards guarding the royal city were still very vigilant, and when they saw a group of soldiers and horses approaching, they hurriedly stopped them.

"Bastard, blind your dog's eyes, I am Dalugong, the son of Zuoxian King Maodun, and I have an urgent military intelligence report!" Darugun said in a fierce voice.

When the defenders at the head of the city heard that it was the son of King Zuoxian, they were also surprised, and they put down their bows and arrows one after another, for fear of injuring the little prince.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, didn't you follow Shan Yu and King Zuo Xian to attack the Jade Gate Pass? Why are you back now? One of the generals was curious.

"I have been ordered to convey an urgent military situation. Hurry up and open the door, delay the big thing, do you eat sin? Darugun shouted.

When the generals defending the city heard this, they were anxious and did not know what to do. Because according to the regulations set by the single one. At night, once the gate of the royal city is locked, no one is allowed to enter or leave without the order of the gold medal follower, and those who violate the order will be killed.

At this time, someone had already rushed back to the prince to ask for instructions from the Huyan clan, after all, if she was not there, she had the highest status, and it was better to ask her to decide on this matter. (To be continued......)